{"id":64320,"date":"2025-07-14T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64320\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:41:09","slug":"after-so-many-close-calls-pavelski-finally-wins-american-century-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64320\/","title":{"rendered":"After so many close calls, Pavelski finally wins American Century Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the day, despite it not being a stroke-play event Pavelski still shot an impressive 4-under-par 68 on the 6,709-yard, Par-72 course. He becomes the third NHL player to win the event, joining five-time event champion Dan Quinn and Hockey Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I got the text last night from Quinny,” Pavelski said with a laugh. “Little pep talk. Pretty awesome to got get one for the hockey guys. We’re a pretty tight knit group out there and there’s a lot of great people involved. Just highly competitve athletes. I know they were cheering for me so it’s special to get it done.”<\/p>\n

Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz put up a valiant effort with 28 points on Sunday but his total of 64 points was nine off Pavelski’s pace.<\/p>\n

Musician Jake Owen was third with 62 points, former MLS star Taylor Twellman was in 4th with 61 points and four-time NBA champion and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry rounded out the top five with 58 points for the tournament.<\/p>\n

Freshly retired forward and member of the 2018 Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals T.J. Oshie<\/a> finished in a 32nd place tie with Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Allen (21 points apiece in the three-day event).<\/p>\n

Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> of the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers finished in 36th place with 18 points.<\/p>\n

Basketball Hall of Fame forward-turned NBA analyst and big hockey fan Charles Barkley fell to 69th place (-17 points), sandwiched between Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen and comedian Ray Romano. NHL Network’s Kathryn Tappen finished in an 88th place tie with NFL Network’s Rich Eisen (-60) in the 90-person field.<\/p>\n

The fans as usual were out in full force. And Pavelski noticed.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to give a little shout out to all the Sharks fans, the Bay Area fans… it doesn’t go unnoticed when I hear you guys shouting, cheering from behind the rope,” Pavelski said. “And then you sprinkle in a few Dallas fans. I saw out there a kid with a 16 jersey out there… The hockey side is special and the connections I had with the fans in San Jose and Dallas means the world to me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the day, despite it not being a stroke-play event Pavelski still shot an impressive 4-under-par 68 on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-64320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114850462668791800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}